ArtAtomic Newsletter: March 7, 2020

WTF image

Working on a code test, for integrating Propublica's weepeople font into a d3 data viz, and early results produced this. I posted this online with the caption "my mood today".
Since weepeople is a font, it's selectable. This can cause some interesting color effects. Here's a pretty bug from a project I'm working on.

Quick Word Clouds from Long-term Study

For these word clouds, I went to my data on youtube advertising and collected the text from political ads in January and February.

Article: on Medium

 

Interesting Random Stuff I've Found

• Cool cell division animation, but probably not how you'd expect: Link
• Bacteria Fractals from @ArtBioCollab: Link
• Song exploder with  Sheryl Crow on 'Redemtion Day' featuring Johnny Case: Link
• BTS performs at Grand Central Terminal: Link
  The choreography of BTS reminds me of ballet, in that it's the art of making the difficult look effortless. Not to mention the theatricality, and massive teamwork to accomplish.
• Next Eurovision winner? Link
• Unfortunately, the WH seems to be censoring CDC's website. Best look to WHO for info: Link
• An XKCD take on COVID and business meetings: Link